Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
APPENDECTOMY WITH COMPLICATED PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS WITHOUT CC/MCC
Low
$15.8k
Average
$35.1k
Median
$27.6k
High
$69.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simi Valley Hospital And Health Care Services Valley, CA | $39.7k | $34.6k | $14.1k | 41% | — | $3.3k – $48.6k |
| 2 | Hanford Community Hospital Hanford, CA | $18.4k | $20.5k | $7.6k | 37% | — | $5.5k – $34.4k |
| 3 | Winneshiek Medical Center Decorah, IA | $17.1k | $15.8k | $2.8k | 17% | — | $10.3k – $18.1k |
| 4 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $71.7k | $69.5k | $4.0k | 6% | — | $16.3k – $74.1k |
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